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Message: [QUOTE="DS3, post: 5871503, member: 407846"] Hmmm. Two points. The first being the idea poker has been 'solved'. It has and it hasn't. It has become a cliche to say that GTO/theoretical play dominates poker. It perhaps does at the highest levels but the vast majority of players underneath are not playing anything which approximates GTO poker, as there is no point. GTO works when you face players also implementing that strategy -when they are not, your GTO game is rendered redundant. Further many of the highest stakes cash games and series such as Triton feature players who are (very) rich amateurs/semi-pros and they aren't playing solver based poker either- not to mention players such as Bryn Kenney who have never used a solver at all. Point Two therefore is about the standard of play simply getting better in an organic manner. Dara O'Kearney, an excellent player (as well as coach and podcaster) has frequently noted that he now coaches several amateurs who have no intention of turning pro. However, what they want to do is play as a hobby and then perhaps enter a few serious tourneys a year...and they simply have a real desire to play well. And this now applies to virtually all recreational players these days. Everybody has learning materials at hand. Books, videos, Twitch streams, coaching are readily available and it would appear as if most playing now study the game in a manner not done before. The net result is play has improved immensely. Its not a question of all play is now math or statistic based - it isn't. But one and all now play fundamentally sound poker and therefore the game on even the lowest of levels is more competitive. [/QUOTE]

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